Sep 17th, 2010
How To Encourage Your Teen To Build A Positive Social Circle
Although adults understand the importance of developing a supportive social network, children aren't quite as selective. While there's only so much influence you can wield in your child's social life, here's how you can help your teenagers develop a positive social network.
Sep 17th, 2010
Personal Grooming: How It Fosters Self Esteem In Your Child
Good grooming habits are a primary step on the ladder of self-esteem. Good self-care creates a feel-good factor that leads to success in other areas of life. So how do you foster in your child a sense of pride in his or her appearance?
Sep 16th, 2010
Pyschological Abuse In Children: Emotional Incest
Emotional incest occurs when a parent energetically uses a child to fill an inner emptiness that the parent is not taking responsibility for filling. While it might not be as traumatic as sexual incest, it occurs for the same reasons - a wounded parent using a child addictively to get love and avoid pain.
Sep 16th, 2010
Conscious Parenting: Nurturing Your Child’s Talent
Does it also worry you that your child may miss out on her best learning years simply because of your ignorance about her talent? To help you with that dilemma, here’s a short guide to help you nurture your child's gifts.
Sep 15th, 2010
5 Parenting Rules That Don’t Work: How To Separate Fact From Fiction
Even before you become a parent, you get advice about it from all sides about the rules of good parenting. But most people soon learn that some of these techniques are simply fads - and many of them don’t work at all. Read on to see what James Lehman thinks are the top five most ineffective parenting concepts out there.
Sep 14th, 2010
Positive Discipline: Alternatives To Punishment For Kids
It’s not our job to catch our kids out when they do something wrong. Positive discipline is teaching your child so that they are equipped the next time to do things the right way. If we do our job right as a parent, there will not be much need for punishment at all.
Sep 14th, 2010
Child Behavior Modification: Punished By Rewards
Do rewards improve performance? At first glance we may think so, but in his book, Punished by Rewards, Alfie Kohn reveals study after study that shows how children who received incentives never improved on their work, while the children not receiving incentives did.
Sep 13th, 2010
Family Communication: Talking Through Your Family Problems
Talking is something that many of us learn to do at a young age, but communicating is not as simple as that. For families, this lack of communication can prove difficult. Here are some handy hints and tips to get into the habit of regular communication with your family members.
Sep 13th, 2010
Parenting Tween Girls: Navigating The Bridge From Childhood To Teen
If your daughter is between the ages of 9 and 12, she's a tween navigating the bridge between childhood and her teenage years, and is looking to have more control in her life. As a parent the journey will be that much more rewarding if the two of you can get along.
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